Free translation from original document in Portuguese BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL Circular Letter 04698/2013 BCB–Deorf /GTPAL Porto Alegre. July 18, 2013. INSTITUTION Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul S.A. ADRESS Rua Capitão Montanha, 177 – Centro ZIP CODE/CITY/STATE 900018-900 – Porto Alegre (RS) ACT PROCESS NO. ASM/ESM of 04.30.2013 1301580272 DATE OF ORDER 06.14.2013 MATTERS APPROVED: 1. Election of members of the Board of Directors, with mandate until members to be elected at 2015 Annual General Meeting are invested: IRS ID no. 257.977.780-68 232.667.590-87 008.288.070-00 024.211.787-20 123.376.680-53 495.839.729-91 283.918.290-49 511.475.480-72 050.126.430-20 Name Odir Alberto Pinheiro Tonollier Tulio Zamin Aldo Pinto da Silva Dílio Sergio Penedo Erineu Clóvis Xavier Flávio Luiz Lammel Francisco Carlos Bragança de Souza Marcelo Tuerlinckx Danéris Olívio de Oliveira Dutra Title Chairman Vice-Chairman Member Member by preferred shareholders Member Member Member Member Member by Minority shareholders 2. Election of members of the Fiscal Council, with mandate until members to be elected at 2014 Annual General Meeting are invested: Individual Tax Payer’s ID no. 563915520-53 488.203.420-49 070068530-87 540197370-53 057733387-93 650006680-49 457098157-72 489833570-53 472078330-91 736.761.010-49 Name André Luiz Barreto de Paiva Filho Bruno Luciano Radtke Cláudio Morais Machado João Victor Oliveira Domingues Rafael Rodrigues Alves da Rocha Aniger Lorena Ribeiro de Oliveira Eduardo Ludovico da Silva Felipe Rodrigues da Silva Flávio José Helmann da Silva Leandro Pires Barcellos Title Effective Fiscal Member Effective Fiscal Member Effective Fiscal Member Effective Fiscal Member Effective Fiscal Member Member (Alternate) Member (Alternate) Member (Alternate) Member (Alternate) Member (Alternate) 3. Amendment to the capital stock, altered to R$ 3,750,000,000.00. 4. Approval of Amendment to Bylaws of the Company. respective to Articles 4, 5 and 20, of the Company's Bylaws, which provide, respectively: 4.1 article 4, to reflect the Company’s proposed capital stock increase by the use of profit reserve. 4.2 article 5, to adequate the Corporate Capital, due to share conversions that took place between February 28, 2012 and February 28, 2013. 4.3 Article 20, to alter its paragraph 4 to: The term of office of the members of the Board of Administration will extend until the inauguration of their substitutes. Free translation from original document in Portuguese NOTE: BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL The company shall, within five days from the date of the event, log into the Unicad system the date of investiture of the elected members, and to provide all information requested by Unicad, according to Sisorf 14.04.70. Attached: Document to be filed at the Registry of Commerce. Organizational Department of the Financial System Technical Management in Porto Alegre Paulo Renato Carneiro Abrahão Deputy Technical Manager Luciano Günter Peixoto Coordinator